01 With investors
The meeting goes well. Then silence.
You’ve built something hard. We find out why buyers and investors aren’t saying yes, fix it, and introduce you to the people who decide.
The problem
These are the most common symptoms, and they all trace back to one cause.
01 With investors
The meeting goes well. Then silence.
02 With customers
Your champion loves it, but can’t sell it internally.
03 With government
They like it. Nothing moves.
If this happens, you have likely fallen into the commercial translation gap.
The distance between what you’ve created and what the market understands it to be.
My proven approach
Built
Bought
How it works
Three ways in. A free Scorecard, a fixed-fee Diagnostic, or a retainer.
Fixed fees. Introductions to buyers, primes and investors included.
A self-assessed Built to Bought score for cold inbound. Warm leads skip straight to a chat. Free.
A workshop, buyer and investor interviews, an evidenced score and a 90-day plan. A$10k, fixed fee, two weeks.
See the DiagnosticMy guarantee
If, at the end of the Diagnostic, your leadership team cannot explain what you do, why it matters and why you're different in language they believe is materially stronger than where you started, I'll continue refining the agreed deliverables at no additional professional fee for up to 30 days following final presentation.
Murphy & Company is a growth practice that helps ventures commercialise complex technology.
Who does the work
One point of accountability, from the first call to the final deliverable. Where a project needs more hands or a specific technical depth, Murphy & Company draws on a vetted network of senior specialists who have done this work before. You get the judgement of one person, and the capacity of a team, when the engagement calls for it.
Before you reach out
If you’re commercialising technically complex technology and need stronger positioning, go-to-market strategy or marketing execution, probably. Some clients come to me because the market doesn’t understand them: customers don’t grasp what they’ve built, fundraising stalls at the narrative level, partners describe them differently in the room. Others already have the story right and need the senior marketing capability to take it to market: brand, campaigns, content, digital, events and sales enablement. The common denominator isn’t the sector or the symptom. It’s a technically sophisticated product that has to be understood by non-
Yes. That’s Done for you, one of three retainer tiers. See retainers.
If your product exists and you are in live conversations with investors or customers, you are not too early, and fixing the story now is cheaper than fixing it after a failed raise. If you are pre-product and still proving the science, you are probably too early for a paid engagement, and I will tell you that on the first call. Either way, start a conversation. The first call will tell you whether your constraint is the story or the absence of anything taking it to market, and it costs you nothing.
No. Warm introductions can skip straight to a chat. Otherwise the Diagnostic is the quickest way to find the gap.
The Diagnostic is A$10k, fixed fee. Retainers are A$5k, A$10k or A$15k a month, with a three-month minimum. The Scorecard is free. A$2.5k is credited against the third month’s invoice of a Done with you or Done for you retainer signed within 30 days. No credit on Advisory.
With rigour. Many clients operate in sensitive sectors where discretion is not a preference. It is a requirement. Every engagement operates under mutual NDA as standard, and I understand that some of the most important work I do will never be publicly attributable. The practice is structured accordingly, with all communications and materials encrypted and secured as a matter of course.
Commercial narrative work does not need controlled technical data, and I structure engagements so it never touches any. The story is built from what you can already say to the audiences you are trying to reach, not from the engineering underneath it. Where a company operates under ITAR, the Defence Trade Controls Act or the Defence and Strategic Goods List, I agree with you at the outset what is out of scope, who on your side reviews materials before they go anywhere, and how drafts are stored and shared. Nothing controlled leaves your environment, and I am comfortable working inside yours.
Start a conversation
Every enquiry comes straight to me. We find a 30-minute call this week, and if it’s a fit, the Diagnostic starts the Monday after.